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English general James Edward Oglethorpe was the town's founder for the purpose of providing an ideal place wherein people were equal and labored mutually for the general welfare for all. Back in England a person might be sent to prison without difficulty for debts. Oglethorpe envisioned Savannah to be a town where a decent man or woman, regardless of how poor, would exist in peace.

In keeping with his ideals, he announced that liquor, slave ownership and lawyers were forbidden. In addition, no individual resident was permitted to acquire over 500 acres of land; colonists paid a rent of 4 shillings per 100 acres to the King and trustees could not receive an income. The settlers could keep their British citizenship plus their children were considered citizens of Great Britain.

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Along with some Protestants from Salzburg, who suffered persecution in England, there was a group of Jewish settlers, as early as 1733, who started the South's first synagogue, called Mickve Israel.

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When Civil War broke out, Union general William T. Sherman thought Savannah very delightful it escaped the destruction undergone by numerous Confederate cities, however the citizens found themselves cut off from supplies when the Union forces surrounded the city, blockading it.